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Bernd Girod is Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, California. He also holds a courtesy appointment with the Stanford Department of Computer Science and he serves as Director of the Image Systems Engineering Program at Stanford. His research interests include networked media systems, video signal compression and coding, and 3-d image analysis and synthesis. He received his M. S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1980 and his Doctoral degree "with highest honours" from University of Hannover, Germany, in 1987.Until 1987 he was a member of the research staff at the Institut für Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung, University of Hannover, working on moving image coding, human visual perception, and information theory. In 1988, he joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, first as a Visiting Scientist with the Research Laboratory of Electronics, then as an Assistant Professor of Media Technology at the Media Laboratory. From 1990 to 1993, he was Professor of Computer Graphics and Technical Director of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany, jointly appointed with the Computer Science Section of Cologne University. He was a Visiting Adjunct Professor with the Digital Signal Processing Group at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1993. From 1993 until 1999, he was Chaired Professor of Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and the Head of the Telecommunications Institute I, co-directing the Telecommunications Laboratory. He has served as the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department from 1995 to 1997, and as Director of the Center of Excellence "3-D Image Analysis and Synthesis" from 1995-1999. He has been a Visiting Professor with the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, Stanford, CA, during the 1997/98 academic year.As an entrepreneur, Prof. Girod has worked successfully with several start-up ventures as founder, investor, director, or advisor. Most notably, he has been a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Vivo Software, Inc., Waltham, MA (1993-98); after Vivo's aquisition, 1998-2002, Chief Scientist of RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK); and, since 1996, an outside Director of 8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT).Prof. Girod has authored or co-authored one major text-book (printed in 3 languages), three monographs, and over 250 book chapters, journal articles and conference papers in his field, and he holds about 20 international patents. He has served as on the Editorial Boards or as Associate Editor for several journals in his field, and is currently Area Editor for Speech, Image, Video & Signal Processing of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He has served on numerous conference committees, e.g., as Tutorial Chair of ICASSP-97 in Munich and ICIP-2000 in Vancouver, as General Chair of the 1998 IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop in Alpbach, Austria, and as General Chair of the Visual Communication and Image Processing Conference (VCIP) in San Jose, CA, in 2001. Prof. Girod has been a member of the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Committee from 1989 to 1997 and was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1998 'for his contributions to the theory and practice of video communications.' He has been named 'Distinguished Lecturer' for the year 2002 by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is recipient of the 2002 EURASIP Best Paper Award (with J. Eggers) and the 2004 EURASIP Techical Achievement Award. |
